WORKSHOPS

NEW! Fitness for Fall Prevention: A Seniors' Home-Based Exercise Plan

Falls are the leading cause of injury, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations for seniors in North America. In this interactive workshop, participants will learn how to incorporate foundational exercises into their daily lives to improve their balance and prevent falls. The exercises don’t require special equipment or the need to get on the floor. Each exercise also includes modifications on how to make it easier or harder, depending on abilities. With the guidance in the workshop and book, seniors can:- Improve their balance, 15 to 30 seconds at a time- Learn how to engage more muscles when they sit and stand, and- Practice good walking mechanics using common household recycling items like empty paper towel tubes.

Pricing: Two pricing options available1. $150 + HST ($169.50) At the end of the workshop, participants will have the option to purchase copies of Balance and Your Body: How Exercise Can Help You Avoid a Fall. The book includes all of the exercises that are covered in the workshop, with step-by-step instructions and illustrations. The book on its own is $18.95 + HST — $21.41 if you pay cheque or e-transfer, and $22 if paid by credit card. 2. $30 + HST ($33.90) per person, and each participant receives a signed copy of Balance and Your Body: How Exercise Can Help You Avoid a Fall. A minimum of 5 participants is required to run the workshop.

Movement is Medicine: The Importance of Daily Physical Activity for Older Adults

Sally Sitwell

Move More, Your Life Depends On It

The fastest growing demographic on Facebook is the 65+ age group. Seniors are taking to social media in droves, and they're becoming even more sedentary than their teenage grandchildren. Mobility in older adults is critical for maintaining independence and keeping costly, long-term care and health services to a minimum.This informative and interactive workshop will teach you to add snacks of movement to your daily life and improve your quality of living.

“Sitting is the new smoking” - it's a catchphrase that has led to a misguided war on seats. Too much sitting is not the problem, but rather, lack of movement is the problem. So, what's the solution? Making a commitment to move more every day. But how?This interactive workshop will equip you with practical solutions to transform you into a committed mover. Learn how small tweaks can add up to big changes in your body - physically, mentally, and emotionally.

Feedback from the workshops:

Workshop, "I'm not sitting anymore; what now?!"

“Thank you Amanda for having this very informative session”

“I just came home and my daughter was working at her computer. I told her to straighten her back and she said ‘WOW, I can breathe so much better!!!’”

“Great advice…and warnings! Will work on ‘younging’ my body instead of aging it!”

“Thanks for the wonderful tips. I hope that schools and companies take advantage of these concepts to help their students and employees.”

“It was a great session.”

“I loved the workshop. Valuable information and so many helpful tips. Thank you Amanda!”

"Today while in 4 hours of meetings I got up and moved around... even walked backwards to the door to excuse myself!!! Thank you for the tips ... already making changes in my day!"

"Just want to say again that it was a really good session yesterday! I even wandered around the house on my calls today."

"Amanda Sterczyk thank you so much for coming to talk to us at Retire-At-Home Services. Our jobs are demanding and require the utmost attention throughout our shifts. Many of our staff have continual neck and back pain due to the time they spend sitting & answering phones and typing. I really am thankful that you sent an important message to keep moving throughout our days. The simple tips and stretches you provided are invaluable to our staff! I believe every office would benefit from Amanda's presentation. Thanks again!!" - Catherine Bennett, Retire-at-Home​

"After listening to Amanda speak about the benefits of "loading our bones", I have been more aware of things that I can do daily. In fact, my husband brought home a few bags of wood-burning pellets for our pellet stove. Rather than have him carry them down a flight of stairs to the area where the pellet stove is in our home, I heard Amanda's voice in my head telling me that carrying these bags would be a great exercise to load my bones. So I did. I heard Amanda's voice as I carried each bag, reminding me that this simple exercise, which didn't take me more than 5-7 minutes to do, was the perfect burst my body needed. Thank you Amanda!" - Pierrette